verbringen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɛɐ̯ˈbʁɪŋən]
Audio (file) Audio (Austria) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩
Verb
verbringen (irregular weak, third-person singular present verbringt, past tense verbrachte, past participle verbracht, past subjunctive verbrächte, auxiliary haben) (transitive)
- (transitive) to spend, to pass (a period of time)
- Wo werden Sie die Nacht verbringen?
- Where will you spend the night?
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, “Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter”, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 78:
- Am liebsten entfloh sie dem allem in den großen Garten. Da verbrachte sie ihre schönsten Stunden.
- She liked best to escape from all of that into the big garden. There she spent her most pleasant hours.
- to move completely
- 2018, Helmut Krenek, Mietrecht. Kommentar, 2nd edition, Berlin: Erich Schmidt, →ISBN, § 546 Rn. 14:
- Ferner sind sämtliche, vom Mieter eingebrachte Gegenstände aus den Räumen oder den Nebenräumen zu verbringen.
- Furthermore all items introduced by the lessee have to be moved completely out of the rooms and ancillary rooms.
- (chiefly archaic) to bring about, to make reality and somehow complete, to fullbring
- Synonyms: vollbringen, vollführen
Conjugation
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Derived terms
- Verbringen
- Verbringung
Further reading
- “verbringen” in Duden online
- “verbringen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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